Originally Posted by The Narrator

When you're very, very, very bored, you might be inclined to try to relieve your boredom by making a visit to the creatures out in the barns and pastures. Students aren't the only ones who like to do this, apparently. If you look very closely, you might see some strange paw-prints here and there in the soft earth of the pastures, in the hay in the barn. Of course, one would have to look closely to distinguish these prints from the many other prints in this creature-fillerd area. But these are different. The Hippogriff area seems to have been a particularly favorite spot for the ... who, or what ever made these prints. Maybe a particularly large kneazle...Whatever it was, it didn't stay, but disappeared into the night, leaving a lot of unsettled creatures behind.